My New Neighbors

It was awkward at first, but now we're all really good friends. I drop off some garbage every Wednesday morning and they're all like "Hey man, what's up? How're things? How's the comic going?"

They're really just super swell.

***I don't particularly care to think how he will manage it, but a particularly hip coworker of mine intends to take me out to a dance club type arrangement at a bar downtown this Thursday night, and teach me the ways of the party lifestyle.

He must know of course that I'm a hopeless cause, but I find myself wondering now if I don't pose as some sort of fun side-project for him, like he's an '80s movie teenager and I'm the broken down sports car in the yard.

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Marcus: Jordan! How do I be cool?

Jordan: Just be yourself.

Marcus: Hmm... is there any way to be myself and cool, at the same time?

Jordan: I think you are cool, though I may be the only one.

***"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"Ernest Hemingway